Proverbs 21:30 (BSB)

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

From Proverbs 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:30

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 21:30-31: The designing busy part of mankind are directed, in all their counsels and undertakings, to have their eye to God, and to believe, 1. That there can be no success against God, and therefore they must never act in opposition to him, in contempt of his commands, or in contradiction to his counsels.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 21:30: There is no wisdom nor understanding, nor counsel against the Lord. No human schemes whatever, formed with the greatest wisdom and prudence, can ever prevail against God, or set aside or hinder the execution of any design of his; nothing that is pointed against his church, his cause, and interest, his truths and ordinances, in the issue shall succeed; all that are found fighters against...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 21:30: Men's best devices and reliances are vain compared with God's, or without His aid (Pro 19:21; Psa 20:7; Psa 33:17). Next: Proverbs Chapter 22
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 21:30: Pro 21:30 30 No wisdom and no understanding, And no counsel is there against Jahve. The expression might also be 'לפני ה; but the predominating sense would then be, that no wisdom appears to God as such, that He values none as such. With לנגד the proverb is more objective: there is no wisdom which, compared with His, can be regarded as such (cf.